ninety thousand miles

Chapter 455 Follow the trend
"Is this the vine monster that the hunter and the three people sent by Mr. Zou encountered?" Li Chuan asked, a little puzzled, "If they had been walking back and forth in the secret passage and had not arrived here, how could they have encountered the vine monster and discovered the floating tower?"

Wen Guying said: "There are three possibilities. The first is that what they experienced was an illusion; the second is that something has changed here during this period of time; the third is that we have taken the wrong path."

Li Chuan thought for a moment and said, "They didn't seem to mention runes, but we also saw runes in the secret passage. So it should be the second one."

"It's almost time, let's stop here for today." Wen Guying said.

Li Chuan wanted to go a little further, so he said, "Let's go a little further, maybe the floating tower is just ahead."

Yao Shuang said: "There is something ahead that is blocking my divine sense detection. I think we can dig down and maybe we can dig out a way."

"Not for now," Wen Guying explained to Li Chuan, "After you go out, walk around again and draw everything you see for Senior Sister Yao. I suspect the changes here are caused by the failure of the formation. So if Senior Sister Yao can complete the formation, or control part of it, then next time we come here, we will have more means to use."

"Okay." Li Chuan agreed.

But Yao Shuang said: "It will take more than one or two days to complete the formation. We can just dig out a path, occupy one place first, and then the next one. No matter how dangerous the secret place is, it will be hollowed out one day."

"How long will it take to dig?" Li Chuan asked subconsciously.

Yao Shuang said: "If it's fast, maybe three to five years."

"what?"

Yao Shuang said: "It won't take that long in the early stages. I'll have a rough idea after digging for one night."

"Senior Sister Yao, with the help of Brother Li's "Pattern Sutra", you will be able to complete the formation in one night." Wen Guying said: "Now the demon spirits are watching us in the dark, so we should not make too much noise."

Li Chuan quickly agreed, "Yes, I can try to complete the formation."

Yao Shuang did not insist. She said, "Okay."

Li Chuan did not insist on moving forward. He said, "How do we get out now? Should we go back the same way?"

"Yes, follow me." Wen Guying said, then turned around and walked back.

Li Chuan followed Wen Guying for a while, and when the rune went dark, he felt a strong force hitting his back. When he stood firm again, he found that he was back in the secret passage. After walking another five or six steps, he felt light coming in.

After crawling out of the secret passage, Li Chuan sat down to catch his breath for a while, then stood up and said, "Senior Sister Yao, could you please draw the formation diagram on paper?"

"I'll try." Yao Shuang said, taking out a pen and paper. She tapped the paper with the tip of her pen, and the formation stretched out on the paper. After drawing more than a dozen sheets of paper, she stopped writing, handed the paper to Li Chuan and said, "I corrected some of the previous mistakes and deduced several possible changes. There are probably still many mistakes and omissions, but I have tried my best."

"Okay, okay." Li Chuan took the paper, flipped through it, and sure enough, it was a little different from what she had drawn on the ground before.

He looked at it for a while, and after he had a general understanding of it, he concentrated his mind and entered the mysterious state again. This time he walked very slowly, stopping from time to time to take out a pen and paper to write and draw. He walked back and forth several times, and only came out of the state after it got dark.

After enduring a period of dizziness, he walked over to Wen Guying and Yao Shuang and said, "After comparing it with the picture that Senior Sister Yao drew for me, I feel that this formation was destroyed by humans. For example, here," he pointed to a fallen dead tree and said, "This is a blank space, completely destroyed."

"Where else are there?" Yao Shuang asked.

"Here," Li Chuan walked to a bare open space based on his memory, "this place is also blank." "Can it be filled?" Yao Shuang asked.

"It can't be repaired." Li Chuan also tried to repair it while investigating. He said: "This formation is completely different from the ones I have encountered before. The structure presented to me is also very strange. If I want to understand it, I think it will take at least several months. If I want to repair it, it will take even longer, and I also need to find suitable materials..."

Yao Shuang turned around and said to Wen Guying, "Let's just dig it."

"Senior Sister Yao, Brother Li and I know nothing about the things of the demon clan. If you dig up something wrong, we can't pull you out like Brother Jiang did." Wen Guying said, his tone a little stern.

Yao Shuang lowered her head.

Before the sun set, she finally spoke again: "I will try to complete the formation tonight."

"We'll come back at 11:00 a.m. the day after tomorrow," Wen Guying said.

"That should be enough." Yao Shuang said.

"Then let's go back." Wen Guying said.

When they returned, it was not too late. Li Chuan said, "I plan to go out and find something to eat. Do you want to go?"

"I can't do it anymore," Yao Shuang refused, "I'll go back to study the formation."

"I'll go." Wen Guying said.

Li Chuan and Wen Guying walked to the street and sat down at a crowded stall. While waiting for the food to be served, Li Chuan asked, "Master Wen, why are you so particular about the time this time? Did you calculate it?"

Wen Guying said: "The old palace master calculated it."

"That's it..." Li Chuan said.

Wen Guying glanced at him and explained, "It can't be said to be calculated. The old palace master cast a glance towards Yashan County. Although he can't see through the various causes and effects entangled in it, he can more or less see the trend of some of the 'qi', so I try to go with the flow."

"I see." Li Chuan said. He thought of something and asked, "So if Senior Sister Yao digs a road, does that mean she's going against the trend?"

"That's not the case." Wen Guying denied it. He said, "She was in charge of digging but not burying. With one shovel, she might have dug through the entire sealing barrier formation. You don't know where this secret realm is connected to."

"Is it so powerful?" Li Chuan asked.

"It's not bad, right?" Wen Guying said, "There is another problem, which is this formation. If she can't complete it, I can go find someone else and there will always be some way. But once she starts digging, we can't turn back. We can only dig desperately inside. Either we dig out the secret realm, or the secret realm kills us."

"That needs to be more stable." Li Chuan said, and he asked: "Master Wen, I have nothing to do tomorrow, I want to find a place to try to control the butterfly spirit. I would like you to protect me and set up a barrier, and if anything goes wrong with me, wake me up immediately to avoid delaying the following things."

"Okay." Wen Guying agreed immediately.

(End of this chapter)